Jan, My replies below.
Regards, Tom Conley On Wed, 25 May 2005 14:57:16 -0500, Jan Vanbrabant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The main question is: >what *IS* now IBM's final recommendation? >CST/RSU is free, probably of a higher quality, but incomplete (only for >z/OS & major subsystems). Disagree. You send IBM your CSI bitmap on ShopZ, and you should get back all the RSU maintenance for all installed products. >CustomPacs are personalized and contain service for ALL CSI products. > I wouldn't trust a CustomPac as far as I could throw it. >Can you work with both approaches, CST/RSU and Custompac? Why do you want to pay for something that you can get for free? >For as far as I know (I'm not the SMP/E expert overhere), it doesn't look >to me as an or-or relationship. From a purely technical point of view, it >should be possible to use both techniques in parallel. In theory, it >should be possible to work for example with 2 CSIs, a RSU-CSI & a >Custompac-CSI. And I suppose we can reconciliate with cross-zone SMP/E. >But are there considerations about doing so? Pro's & con's? Do's and >don'ts? > My best practice is to use SUF until it goes away. IBM recommends ShopZ, but it's still too much manual intervention for me. I've had bad experiences with CustomPacs, so I will not use them again. If they work for you, great, but is the cost of them really worth the minimal time savings? In my case, I spent more time correcting the CustomPac errors than I would have if I did it all myself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
